Emirates

What the Emirates app covers for a trip

This is the Emirates airline's own Android app, built for handling a flight from booking through to arrival. It covers searching for and completing a booking, choosing seats and meals, checking in, and following your bags and gate once you are travelling.

Most of its features are tied to a single reservation, so it suits people who already hold or are about to hold an Emirates booking. Notification choices are the main way the app is set up to each person.

Searching for flights and completing a booking

Flight search covers more than 150 destinations. The booking is completed inside the app itself, from search through to the final confirmation.

Changing seats, meals and trip details

Before departure you can pick a seat and a meal preference, and add services such as Chauffeur-drive to the same booking. Personal details on a reservation can be updated in the app.

The full itinerary can be opened at any time, and the listing says it remains available when the phone is offline.

Checking in and carrying a boarding pass

Online check-in produces a boarding pass that you can print, or send to your phone by SMS or email to use as a digital pass. On Android phones, the listing says the pass can also be reached through Google Now.

Following bags and getting flight alerts

Bag tracking follows your luggage from check-in to the baggage belt at your final destination. Real-time updates cover check-in status, departure gate, boarding time and baggage belt, and you choose which of these notifications reach you.